Genus Isognomon Lightfoot, 1786

Museums

Regional Maps

• Isognomon Lightfoot, J. 1786. A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland: deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co., etc. London viii, 194 pp. + 44 pp. [9, 41, 52, 115, 137] [Solander ms].

  Type species:

   Ostrea perna Linnaeus, 1767 by monotypy.
• Isognoma Lightfoot, J. 1786. A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland: deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co., etc. London viii, 194 pp. + 44 pp. [9] [objective synonym].
• Melina Retzius, A.J. 1788. Dissertatio historico-naturalis sistens nova testaceorum genera. Quam præside D. M. Andr. J. Retzio (...) ad publicum examen defert Laurentius Münter Philipsson. Dissertatio Historico-Naturalis. Lund : Berling pp. 1-4, 1-23. [author of names of taxa is Philipson] [22].

  Type species:

   Ostrea ephippium Linné, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, their Synonyms and Types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-242 [200].
• Perna Bruguière, J.G. 1789. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle des Vers. Paris : Agasse Vol. 1(1) i-xviii, 757 pp. [xiii] [junior homonym; not Perna Retzius, 1788 (Mytilidae)].

  Type species:

   Ostrea isognomon Linné, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Anton, H.E. 1838. Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Hermann Eduard Anton befinden. Halle : Eduard Anton xvi + 110 pp. [imprint date 1839; see Cernohorsky (1978: 299) for publication dates] [17].
• Isogonum Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [168].
• Pernigenus Renier, S.A. 1807. Tavole per servire alla classificazione e connoscenza degli Animali. Padova : Stabe fils. [plate 7] [included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes, INCZ opinion 427].
• Sutura Mergerle von Mühlfeld, J.C. 1811. Entwurf eines neuen System's der Schalthiergehäuse. Magazin Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 5: 38-72 [65].

  Type species:

   Ostrea ephippium Linné, 1758 by monotypy.
• Pernaria Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organises. Palermo (Italy) : Privately Published 224 pp. [Date published April to July] [147] [replacement name; for Perna Bruguière, 1789, not Perna Philipson, 1788 (in Retzius) (Mytilidae)].
• Anisoperna Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [321] [treated as a subgenus by Huber (2010)].

  Type species:

   Perna australica Reeve, 1858 by original designation.
• Parviperna Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [322] [treated as a subgenus by Huber (2010)].

  Type species:

   Parviperna perexigua Iredale, 1939 by original designation.
• Malleoperna Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [323-324].

  Type species:

   Malleoperna intricata Iredale, 1939 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

 

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from tissues of Perkinsus sp. on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, East India, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, Tropical Indo-West Pacific, Hong Kong, Tropical Indo-West Pacific, Hawaiian Islands, India, Madagascar, Polynesia, Seychelles, South China, Hong Kong, India, Red Sea, South Africa,.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

General References

Cotton, B.C. 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda. Adelaide : W.L. Hawes, Government Printer 363 pp. [Date published Oct: Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Series] [72] (as Parviperna)

Goggin, C.L., Sewell, K.B. & Lester, R.J.G. 1989. Cross-infection experiments with Australian Perkinsus species. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 7: 55-59

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

Iredale, T. 1915. Some more misused Molluscan Generic Names. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 11: 291-306 [303] (on Perna and Melina Bruguière, 1789)

Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [319-320, 325] (also as Melina)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [10]

Moore, R.C. (ed.) 1969. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part N. Mollusca 6. Bivalvia. Boulder, Colorado & Lawrence, Kansas : Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press Vols 1 & 2 xxxviii + ii, 952 pp. [Vol.1, pp. i-xxxviii + N1-N489; Vol. 2, pp. i-ii + N491-N952] [N322]

Trueman, E.R. 1953. The structure of the ligament of Pedalion (Perna). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 30: 160-166 (as Pedalion (Perna))

Vokes, H.E. 1980. Genera of the Bivalvia: A Systematic and Bibliographic Catalogue (revised and updated). New York : Paleontological Research Institution 307 pp. [44]

Yonge, C.M. 1968. Form and habit in species of Malleus (including the "hammer oysters") with comparative observations on Isognomon isognomon. Biological Bulletin 135: 378-405 [392-393]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
13-Sep-2022	BIVALVIA	13-Sep-2022	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	ABRS
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	PTERIOIDEA	17-Jun-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014		17-Nov-2010	ADDED
		17-Nov-2010	MODIFIED